Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Identifying the geometric catalytic active sites of crystalline cobalt oxyhydroxides for oxygen evolution reaction

  • Sihong Wang,
  • Qu Jiang,
  • Shenghong Ju,
  • Chia-Shuo Hsu,
  • Hao Ming Chen,
  • Di Zhang,
  • Fang Song

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34380-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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While cobalt-based electrocatalysts demonstrate promising performances for oxygen evolution, active site identification is complicated by concurrent structural changes. Here, authors examine crystalline, well-defined cobalt oxyhydroxide nanomaterials and identify the geometric active sites.